Kosmoplovci release their music in the form of net.label. Our netlabel is now known as studiosound, previosly was known as floating joint (respect to jormas) and before that was known as corrosion music or crsmusic. it is more like an interface to our music, regardless of it's particular style, than classic label dedicated to certain style. it provides platform for our music releases, but, similar to our personal different interestes, styles vary in all possible directions - it is never easy to explain what one can find by downloading it's releases...

maybe you will hear gipsies in broken radio, or you will tear your ears apart with some serious noise, or you will travel beyound the frontiers of unspoken space, or you will burn the dancefloor, get lost in darkness of space or melt in serene notes of true optimism...

studiosound/kosmoplovci music is very diverse and schizophrenic, just like are its authors...

PART 1, PREPARATIONS @ CZKD from 12h to 22h.// comics workshop and exhibition hosted by studiostrip/kosmoplovci, promotion of a new edition of studiostrip comics published by fabrika knjiga, presentation of kosmoplovci video work, accompanied by ambient/noise soundscapes performed by dominator with guests.

PART 2, TRANSMISSION @ AKADEMIJA from 23h.// multigenre radio drama, continuation of kosmoplovci transmisija project, presenting first live transmission performance in public space, hosted by dominator, presenting crno klank from belgium, with suprise guests from serbian electronic scene.

feedback ep consists of two rather unusual tracks, different in theirappearance, but quite similar in their structure and creative processthat involved manual realtime tuning of it's resonance frequenciesin the feedback loop, to the point where it's own audio output wasmoved into the area of 'microphony' frequences, which were then guidedto form their own layers of tone and melody, by the means of activelive manipulation of sound sources and their flows.

by achieving this state of 'controlled chaos', both of the tracks arecompletelly made free from it's sequencing and let alone to roam, whilestill keeping it as a whole in the area of comprehensive music, ratherthan pure uncontrolled noise. the result is completelly genuineartificially generated music that is strikingly organic, although it iscompletelly made out of vapour in the artificial digital-analogue process.

both tracks are the original live recordings, not in any way modifiedfrom their original form. source sounds are our own drum recordings.

the names are chosen in respect to their general feel, as how couldthose extreme states of nature sound, if we could exist in their vicinityat all.

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faktor & vektor is a collaboration project of dominator and trut, belgrade based computer+drums duo producing experimental music rangingfrom drum and bass, jungle and techno all the way to abstract ambient.it is founded in 2005 and to this date have no official releases,although their music is already featured in some movies and tv series,and also in public on various events ranging from dnb to abstract noize,performed and remixed by phase, codex, dominator, kdes and kosmoplovci.

dominator is active in music scene since 1993, producing all kinds ofelectronic music under various names. he is also a wide known demoscene,music and art activist, being the main person behind corrosion andkosmoplovci groups, involved in numerous projects as music, video,design and programming artist.

trut is best known as being a long time collaborator with serbianmusician rambo amadeus, following him and supporting with live drumsfor most of his carreer, starting back in 1988. he is a bit less knownfor being a huge music activist, especially supporting and spreadingjungle and drum'n'bass scene starting from the early days, but alsohaving an open ear for the experimental side of electronic music.his drumming skills are exceptional and he is widely respected asbeing one of the best serbian drummers (if not THE best...) but he isalso quite open-minded and interested in collaborations that can bringhim to situations to develop and create new sounds and ideas by mergingbest of both analog and digital worlds.this was the point where dominator and trut met and understood each other,and started to make music together as faktor & vektor.

faktor & vektor is a collaboration project of dominator and trut, belgrade based computer+drums duo producing experimental music rangingfrom drum and bass, jungle and techno all the way to abstract ambient.it is founded in 2005 and to this date have no official releases,although their music is already featured in some movies and tv series,and also in public on various events ranging from dnb to abstract noize,performed and remixed by phase, codex, dominator, kdes and kosmoplovci.

dominator is active in music scene since 1993, producing all kinds ofelectronic music under various names. he is also a wide known demoscene,music and art activist, being the main person behind corrosion andkosmoplovci groups, involved in numerous projects as music, video,design and programming artist.

trut is best known as being a long time collaborator with serbianmusician rambo amadeus, following him and supporting with live drumsfor most of his carreer, starting back in 1988. he is a bit less knownfor being a huge music activist, especially supporting and spreadingjungle and drum'n'bass scene starting from the early days, but alsohaving an open ear for the experimental side of electronic music.his drumming skills are exceptional and he is widely respected asbeing one of the best serbian drummers (if not THE best...) but he isalso quite open-minded and interested in collaborations that can bringhim to situations to develop and create new sounds and ideas by mergingbest of both analog and digital worlds.this was the point where dominator and trut met and understood each other,and started to make music together as faktor & vektor.

the name of the album 'dolaze teska vremena' means 'hard times are coming',it is not a prophecy it is a fact. however, as dark as it may be, the truthwill be ultimatelly be found by brave warriors.faktor & vektor are doing their part in the continuum.

this release contains mp3 renderings of all official corrosion_music digital module packs released between 05/12/1997 and 28/03/2001. no additional work on mastering and postproduction has been done, as this release is created primarily to allow future generations easier access to corrosion / kosmoplovci early work from the days of trackers, one of the first and most widely spread computer music software before the time of realtime fx.

although the quality of sound may be incomparably low for todays standards, especially when sourced from the 4channel 8bit modules, these tunes are full of unique and interesting ideas that came out in various music styles. lots of effort has been put into creating each one of these, and after all, it is a part of our history which we are very proud of.

on 06-sep-5002, kosmoplovci openned their exhibition in serbian national library. for this occasion, the group created full featured multimedia event, including video projection, launch of 'put u kosmosu' catalogue and live kdes performance in front of the building. after the exhibition, kdes and kosmoplovci release audio recording of it's performance, accompanied by 'put u kosmosu' graphic novel taken from the mentioned catalogue.

four collaborative tunes made in different occasions by havok and speaker for the dead have been released to a high acclaim by the chosen few who had actually took their time to email us. solid ambient, rough and intensive, emotional but never pathetic. artwork designed around graphics made by procesor.

the long awaited sequel to kooitriplex, a selection of ambient works from kosmoplovci musicians. along with previously unreleased tracks, contains remastered versions of music featured in killerclouds, migracija, the next letter and detmen.

after our return from haip, the 'standard' kdes lineup consisting of havoc, tatar and speaker organized a 2day session where few hours of material were recorded. few weeks after it, tatar mixes some of the parts from those sessions, eager to release it in order to allow people better insight in our current kdes developments. this release contains only small percentage of the recordings and we are preparing to publish more of it soon...

another microsite made by havoc accompanies release of kdes live recording from concert at haip event in ljubljana on june 16, 404. on this occasion, kdes has performed in somewhat different setup than usual - beside havoc and speaker, our third member which usually is tatar was replaced by dzho who has introduced new and rather interesting additions to kdes performance. also, we had a guest contribution from borut savski, a slovenian artist who was playing along with us on his own selfmade electronic instrument.

mirko petrovic audio remix project have taken quite some time to develop, during which all of kosmoplovci have contributed in different ways. at the end, 'ljudi imaju glave' comes out as a double cd pack release containing 9 remixes made by dZho, havoc, tatar, rashid and speaker for the dead on CD1 and 21 original pieces from the real mirko petrovic on CD2. web release contains print resolution designs and full music downloads in ogg and mp3.

long play release from dZho explore somehow lost domains of hip hop, conjoined with multiple layers of electronics and breakbeats, almost to unrecognisition, yet still plausible and relaxing. always a good listening.

dominator released a 32 minutes long EP with 6 pieces of beat based experiments unlinked to any particular style or genre. the resulting record demands more than simple banging on the dancefloor and is therefore recommended also to audio researchers, if there are still any left around. with the graphical help of kosmoplovci mates, dominator designs his website as usual.

so far the largest floatingjoint/kosmoplovci project took us more than year to finish, but the effort sure has not been in vain. KOOITRIPLEX CDROM contains 24 audio pieces with related graphics/design, 5 videos and completely integrated cdrom version of the videoep. and all that working on (almost) any pc in fullscreen environment without any additional software. although KOOITRIPLEX/WEB provides full mp3 downloads and links to all related videos, we strongly recommend cdrom version for full experience, with intro animation, instant transitions and embedded videos, all running from a single cd. send an email to studiosound@kosmoplovci.net for additional information.

quite succesfull and inspiring kdes visit and performance in graz results in creation of an adequate web place in networked space of kosmoplovci. beside it's hypnotic atmosphere, kdes@in-dust website provides mp3 downloads of concert recordings, links to all participants and official in-dust.org representatives.

first release of the planned 'dominator legacy' sequel. contains works created between 1996 and 1999 in soundstudio on amiga, grouped by it's musical orientations. tracks are directly converted from raw med to mp3, no additional mastering was done. great design is curtesy of danijel/kosmoplovci.

the winter 1996/1997 was one of the most important period in dominator's life. having discovered the ambient and experimental techno in it's full scale thanks to NEXUS organisation of DJ's and musicians, he started exploring the worlds of autechre, panasonic, xinguhill, fsol and other ambient/experimental artists. in the atmosphere filled up with turmouil and fears of the unstoppable global creative downfall, still having his crew of dedicated electronic explorers who didn't let him down, in this period he created some of his first ambient pieces which would later evolve into speaker for the dead, as well as some of his best, or at least most known jungle/breakbeat pieces which would later become the root factor of lo-tek kings project.

although finished, with only final premastering left to complete it, album somehow trapped into dead loop and real decision to release was never made. partly this was due to dominator's serious hardware and cash problems, partly due to his wish to make this a proper release which would come out in more than 50 pieces, how usually corrosion music releases ended up... dead loop just looped over and over until the master cd finally got lost...

however, the ITTIS destiny turned better at the end of 2000, when a misterious copy of album was found in possesion of phase/codex. since this material is pretty old and today's release would be far under today's standard of dominator's music, we decided to make it an online release because this album, although not released, has meant much in our lives and don't deserve to be forgotten.

BRAIN DAMAGE, released in december 1996, was our first attempt to make some kind of promo release which will present our best work in various music styles. it is also the first release treated as a label production.

Originaly, BRAIN DAMAGE was created as promo tape entitled hARdCoRRoSioN promo v1.o but after succesful entries on radio station's top lists and making of our first video for phuse we decided to make this an official release, renamed it to BRAIN DAMAGE and made it available on audio tapes.

as our technical knowledge grew, we managed to make BRAIN DAMAGE our first CD master, but due to a cost limits, the actual release was still distributed on audio tapes. however, sound quality was a large advance comparing to THE MIX, mainly because of new technology and software which allowed us to burn cd tracks directly without analog conversion.

after the while, we decided to release it online, so it is now available as module release #56: crs_brd.lha (2,588,884 bytes) or as 128kbps mp3 files [packed in zip files].

BRAIN DAMAGE presents 14 tracks in more or less 5 music styles. It begins with dark ambient INTRO which announces four 200+ BPM hardcore tracks. After them, the unfortunate listener is confronted with the experimental METALLIC BRAINWASH followed by the dark industrial AFTERLIFE. REPRESSIVE THOUGHTS easilly beats up the tempo and set it to trip-hop/breakbeat pace in the next 4 tracks. Last two tracks are a bit of old-school breakbeat phused with industrial sounds.

This torrent release of BRAIN DAMAGE contains mp3 version of the album, with all source modules included in octamed soundstudio format.

DOMINATOR: THE MIX is the first CoRRoSioN audio release. it was available on audio tape only and it contained 90 minutes of music separated in 2 mixes: acid/experimental/trance mix [side a] and hardcore/breakbeat mix [side b]. each mix contained 45 minutes of dominator's music mixed live with 2 computers and our home-made "MEDUSA" audio mixer powered up with few gadgets made by our electric wizards which allowed him to make a decent sound output from plain amiga computers he used at that time.

THE MIX is made out of 26 digital modules made by dominator during 1994 and 1995 and mixed some time at fall 1995. the reason why dominator decided to make this at all was to test how people react to computer music when they listen it from the ordinary tape, and compare that to the prejudice of listening to 'computer' music. the experiment was very succesful and proved that people do have that prejudice, so we decided to create some amount of tapes see what will happen. at the end we actually sold them all out. the tape has color cover, one of our very early 'design' attempts

THE MIX is also available as free digital module pack featuring additional 10 minutes of the music parts not used in the mix. 3mb large module release #52 contains 26 4channel digital modules playing over 100 minutes of music...

This torrent release of DOMINATOR: THE MIX contains recording from original audio tape, all modules and their mp3 renders.